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Islam

The sex-obsessed world
of Brunei (news.com.au) May 12 - Last week, celebrities including Jay Leno, Ellen DeGeneres, Sharon
Osbourne, Richard Branson and Clive Davis united for an unlikely cause: a
boycott of the Beverly Hills Hotel, because its owner, the Sultan of Brunei,
recently announced the implementation of Sharia law in his tiny South Asian
nation.

Religious
Violence

Sudan judge orders
Christian woman to hang for apostasy (The West Australian) May 16 - Khartoum (AFP) - A Sudanese judge sentenced a heavily pregnant
Christian woman Thursday to hang for apostasy, a ruling that Britain denounced
as "barbaric" and left the United States "deeply
disturbed".

Also:
India PM-elect Modi to
make triumphant Delhi entrance (The
West Australian) May 17 - New Delhi (AFP) - India's prime minister-elect Narendra Modi was to
make a triumphant entrance to New Delhi Saturday after leading his Hindu
nationalist party to an historic landslide victory in the world's largest election.